I have the honor as serving as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. The caucus is known as the conscious of the congress. Andas established in 1971 has fought to address Police Brutality directed at africanamericans. Three weeks ago the world witnessed a horrific crime in minneapolis. The slow murder of george floyd. His tragic death has galvanized the nation to take a deeper look at our history because black americans have sadly marching for over 100 years to bring attention to this gross injustice. Black americans have been marching against police abuse and for the police to protect and serve communities. In the 1950s news cameras exposed the horrors of racism. They exposed to the treatment of people who challenged the system. Cameras exposed to the world that black americans did not have the same protections, freedom of speech, the right to assemble and protest beard years later, it is the cell phone camera that has exposed the continuation of a violent directed at africanam
[background noises] the ways and Means Committee will now come to order. Good morning, today we will consider the historic u. S. Mca transforming agreement that creates a new High Water Mark u. S. Trade deals moving forward. The implementing bill before us is the result of many months of negotiations and indeed more than a year between House Democrats and the ambassador robert who worked with us honorably every time we met. And im very proud of the outcome of that we have reached. When we assume the majority this year, we were asked to consider a renegotiated nafta that had structural flaws in a number of areas including enforcements, labor rights, the environment, and access to medicines. Let me start with enforcement. Which was the crux of this agreement. As ive noted many times over the past year, i did not vote for the original nafta, the chief reason was a lack of enforceability. In the past 25 years, weve seen the shortcoming of the original agreements, much of which comes down t
Speak the ways and Means Committee will now come to order good morning we will consort considered a historic usmca the high watermark with trade deals moving forward it is the result of more than one year House Democrats and the ambassador light heiser who worked with us every time we met. Im very proud of the outcome we have reached. When we assume the majority this year we were asked to consider a renegotiated nafta in a number of areas including enforcement the environment and access to medicines that we start with enforcement as noted many times i did not vote for the original nafta and the chief reason was the lack of enforceability. The past 25 years we have seen the shortcoming much of which comes down to lack of enforcement in my view the improvements to the usmca finally makes the agreement enforceable n by preventing a country to block a nation dispute settlement attempt. Nafta has been symbolic and over 25 years there have been 39 petitions filed with zero enforcement action
They really have to make one of 2 choices right choice number one is you have to raise the price on those items so that the consumers have to carry that cost or as a retailer you dont want to anger the consumers so you simply eat the cost yourself. With what theyre left with or both actually because they have to rely on both aspects in order to make their margins work and right now that they will not increase their budget meaning that they will not increase in order to catch up to the rate hikes which ultimately mean that they will end up buying fewer goods overall ok so here we are with the u. S. Retailers say the 15 percent tariff comes along the u. S. Retailers get hurt at christmas time but the chinese retailers they will actually hurt into next year right into next year which is why this year this didnt really impact manufacturing because manufacturers are they got their orders for the Holiday Season from the retailers however these tariffs are not going to extend into 2020 and th
These retailers and take a huge chunk out of their earnings because we havent seen this since 2013 that we had 6 plus days and 2013 was one of the worst years for retailers securities a lot of days but lets also be clear about this so the american retailers theyre obviously going to take the hit them from what youre saying based on christmas so they really have to make one of 2 choices right choice number one is you have to raise the price on those items so that the consumers have to carry that cost or as a retailer you dont want to anger the consumers so you simply eat the cost yourself. With what theyre left with or both actually because they have to rely on both aspects in order to make their margins work and right now all the Amazon Sellers have been feeling this and 72 percent of them have actually increased the price of their goods furthermore the latest market surveys show that while 60 percent of American Consumers say that they are worried about terrorists when asked about the